nixos-hardware/apple/macbook-air/7/README.md

MacBook Air 7,X

For wifi driver

broadcomt_sta was the best working driver I could find, however on the normal kernel, you need to sudo modprobe -r wl and sudo modprobe wl, however it was fully working on the zen kernel.

MacBook Air 7,2

Issues

Wifi Driver doesn't work

Solution

• generated NixOS-Configuration via nixos-generate config on MacBook to load following modules:

  boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" "wl" ];
  boot.extraModulePackages = [ config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta ];

Camera doesn't work

Solution

  hardware.facetimehd.enable = true;

• when added this line of code, another driver was loaded for the network controller, so wifi stopped working.
• by adding the modules to boot.initrd. both wifi and camera was working:

Solution

  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" "wl" ];